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2024: i read 100 books
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items I read 100 books in 2024: physical books, digital books, audiobooks, all of the books. List in progress. Updated 26 April 2025. Happy Independent Bookstore Day!
Sections
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fiction from my TBR list
nonfiction from my TBR list
forever rereading
fiction from my TBR list
Fiction that I read for the first time in 2024.
immediate classic, required reading, BCC: USA, no seriously this is a v important warning
Prophet Song: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
literary fiction, michigan, families, sisters, family lore, multiple timelines, sisters
Tom Lake: A Novel
feels like true crime, grown woman visits hometown, women surviving men, thriller, murder mystery probably
All Good People Here: A Novel
unhinged women, toxic relationships, unreliable narrator, influencers, things go wrong in the city
A Touch of Jen
hype was deserved, women surviving men, science is for everyone, we love when women
Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel
not for everyone but absolutely for me, hollywood, pls review tw list, celebrity life goes sideways, rich people
Postcards from the Edge
classic, dark academia, rich people, murder, dark and surreal, literary fiction, smart people who are insufferable, heard y'all liked saltburn
The Secret History: A Read with Jenna Pick
holy tw batman, monstrous mothers, family trauma, unreliable narrator, unhinged women, diaspora, immigrant daughter
Bad Fruit: A Novel
i'm a corporate girlie and this triggered my fight or flight, rich people, dark humor, i couldn't look away, everybody was awful and i loved it
Very Bad Company: A Novel
unreliable narrator, unhinged women, lol fandom, dark and surreal
Y/N: A Novel
whomst amongst us did the murder, domestic thriller, easy and quick read (complimentary), locked room trope adjacent, women surviving men, multiple timelines
Never Lie
snark snark snark, meta, ok freida
The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie: A Satirical Short Story
thriller, family lore, domestic drama, grown woman visits hometown, women surviving men, murder, small town with big secrets, multiple timelines
Home Is Where the Bodies Are
rich people, whomst amongst us did the murder, everybody was awful and i loved it, unhinged women, thriller
One of Us Is Dead
unhinged women, unreliable narrators, what is even happening, includes meta footnotes, locked room trope adjacent, snark snark snark
The Extinction of Irena Rey
holy tw batman, women surviving men, childhood trauma, unhinged women, multiple timelines, unreliable narrator, hella dark, lolita triggers my fight or flight and i hope it does for you too
My Dark Vanessa: A Novel
multiple timelines, thriller, includes a true crime podcast, women surviving men, dark academia adjacent, sisters, family lore, grown woman visits hometown, childhood trauma
The Lake of Lost Girls: A Novel
holy tw batman, childhood trauma, mental illness, addiction, women surviving men, hella dark, young adult
Girl in Pieces
not for everyone but absolutely for me, favorite author, snark snark snark, meta, time travel, kilgore trout, unstuck in time
Timequake
thriller, whomst amongst us did the murder, rich people, everybody was awful and i loved it, locked room adjacent, multiple timelines
The Hunting Party: A Novel
thriller, whomst amongst us did the murder, rich people, locked room adjacent, multiple timelines, love when the scenery is also a character
The Guest List: A Novel
thriller, unreliable narrator, multiple timelines, women surviving men, when normal lives go sideways, normalize remembering the vibes but not the finer plot points
I Want You Gone
holy tw batman, monstrous mothers, unreliable narrator, hollywood, magical realism, love when the scenery is also a character, unhinged women, dark and surreal, is the author ok
Rouge: A Novel
family lore, multiple timelines, love when the scenery is also a character, women surviving men, i have a lot of strong feelings about this one and they are all positive, siblings, family trauma, the world is literally on fire
The Bee Sting: A Novel
holy tw batman in the opening scene but also that type of horror actually happened, magical realism, horror, neo-western, diaspora, hello to my fellow mexicans, some of y'all aren't ready to talk about actual U-S-American history, family lore
Valley of Shadows
i showed up for the world building and stayed for the storyline, i'm asexual but some of y'all will love the parts that i skipped, romantasy, beauty and the beast?? no, women surviving men, childhood trauma, sisters, acotar
A Court of Mist and Fury
i showed up for the world building and stayed for the storyline, i'm asexual but some of y'all will love the parts that i skipped, romantasy, beauty and the beast?? no, women surviving men, childhood trauma, sisters, acotar
A Court of Wings and Ruin
hallmark christmas special, i appreciate when authors don't skip over the effects of ptsd, acotar, romantasy, i'm asexual but some of y'all will love the parts that i skipped, women surviving men, sisters
A Court of Frost and Starlight
historical fiction, yes to anthropology, multiple timelines, childhood trauma, mental illness, women surviving men, dark academia adjacent, not for everyone but absolutely for me, queer (always complimentary)
After Sappho
classic, multiple timelines, the monsters are human, family trauma, family lore, sisters, women surviving men, dark and surreal, love when the scenery is also a character, childhood trauma, mental illness, unhinged women
The Haunting of Hill House
horror, magical realism, old hollywood, hello to my fellow mexicans, family trauma, diaspora, feels like true crime, murder mystery probably, dark and surreal
Silver Nitrate
nonfiction from my TBR list
Nonfiction that I read for the first time in 2024.
nonfiction, BCC: USA, language matters, daddy trump
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
memoir, women surviving men, pls review tw list
Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir
memoir, holy tw batman, mental illness, dark and surreal
In the Dream House: A Memoir
memoir, i was hoping for more but this was fine, joan didion
The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
adhd girlies already knew this smh, self-improvement, idk i think the hype was mostly deserved, booktok pls keep recommending books like this that will actually help people TIA, nonfiction
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
i'm too much of a mexican catholic to practice tarot but i own decks anyway, self-improvement, boundaries, we love when women, not for everyone bus absolutely for me, reference material
Tarot for Change: Using the Cards for Self-Care, Acceptance, and Growth
lol fandom, one direction if you're into that, for the culture, i felt called out, bcc: the x-files, bcc: x-philes, i can't believe i just used those tags, let girls enjoy things
Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It
nonfiction, reference, history, colors, yes to anthropology, how can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real
The Secret Lives of Color
art, gorgeous paintings, i saw these in person and literally cried about it, idk if using the following tags is ick but we live in trump's america and some of y'all need to listen to non-yts a lot more often, anti-racism, Black lives matter, BLM
Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence
holy tw batman, memoir, lawyers, mental illness, addiction, alcoholism, women surviving men, i'm a corporate girlie and this triggered my fight or flight, i have never been this person but i see u, rich people
Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir
memoir, yes to anthropology, musical history, diaspora, immigrant experience, family lore, nonfiction
Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico
memoir, family lore, love u gabo, nonfiction, families, immigrant experience, diaspora
A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
forever rereading
Comfort reads, etc.
classic, fine for children, sometimes i just wanna reread something easy and cozy ok, translated into english
The Little Prince
classic, love u gabo, small town with big secrets, family lore, translated into english
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
BCC: USA, classic, speculative fiction, daddy trump, “wait. is this f-cking play about us?”
1984: 75th Anniversary
holy tw batman, monstrous mothers, family lore, literary fiction, michigan, this changed my brain chemistry, sisters
The Virgin Suicides: A Novel (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition)
holy tw batman, hollywood, unhinged women, family lore, monstrous mothers, mental illness, toxic relationships, classic, joan didion
Play It As It Lays: A Novel
classics, required reading, BCC: USA, no seriously if you're wondering how the united states started to collapse this has a whole lot of clues in it
Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition
classic, the monsters are human, family trauma, family lore, sisters, women surviving men, small town with big secrets, dark and surreal
We Have Always Lived in the Castle: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)